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Edited By Keith Allan and Kasia M. Jaszczolt

This book "fills the unquestionable need for a comprehensive and up-to-date handbook on the fast-developing field of pragmatics" and "includes contributions from many of the principal figures in a wide variety of fields of pragmatic research as well as some up-and-coming pragmatists."

This is the first published edition of John Sinclair, Susan Jones andRobert Daley's seminal research on collocation in the 1970s. This researchhas been enormously influential and has sparked a growth of interest incollocation amongst researchers in linguistics, but until now has beenunavailable.

Collocation was first viewed as important in computational linguistics inthe work of Harold Palmer in Japan. Later M.A.K. Halliday and John Sinclairpublished on collocation in the 1960s. English Collocation Studies is areport on empirical research into collocation, devised by Halliday withSinclair acting as the Principal Investigator and editor of the resultantOSTI (Office of Scientific and Technical Information) report.

The present edition contains an introduction by Professor Wolfgang Teubertbased on his interview with John Sinclair. The introduction assesses theextent to which the findings of the original research have developed in theintervening years, and how some of the techniques mentioned in the reportwere implemented in the COBUILD project at Birmingham University in the 1980s.